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Alfred Leslie - COOL MAN in a GOLDEN AGE - selected filmsDVD from Lux Alfred Leslie is a pivotal American artist-painter-filmmaker whose work spans the past fifty years. A celebrated contemporary of the Abstract Expressionists and a key figure in the extraordinary social milieu of downtown New York from the 1950s and 60s to the present, his own canvases were amongst the most revered of his peers. In 1964 he made Pull My Daisy with the photographer Robert Frank and in 1966 collaborated with the inimitable poet Frank O'Hara on The Last Clean Shirt... Add to Cart $45 Personal Use$100 Academic/Institutional UsePrice Explanation |
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Luis Bunuel - Death in the GardenDVD from Transflux Films Amid a revolution in a South American mining outpost, a band of ill-starred fugitives- a roguish adventurer (Georges Marchal), a local hooker (Simone Signoret), a priest (Michel Piccoli), an aging diamond miner (Charles Vanel) and his def-mute daughter-are forced to flee for their lives into the jungle. Starving, exhausted and stripped of their old identities, they wander desperately lured by one deceptive promise of salvation after another. Add to Cart $40 Personal Use$75 Academic/Institutional UsePrice Explanation |
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Robert Frank - The Complete Film Works: Vol. 3 Keep Busy, About Me: A Musical, S-8 Stones Footage from Exile on Main StreetSpecial Edition DVD Boxset from D.A.P. Robert Frank, born in Zurich in 1924, has made, in his 50-year career, an unquestionably significant contribution to photography. His seminal book The Americans is arguably the most important American photography publication of the postwar period. His work continues to influence photographers and has spawned a rich body of theoretical writing. Yet at the very moment Frank became an art-world star at the end of the 1950s, he abandoned still photography to become a filmmaker. Add to Cart $140 Personal Use$200 Academic/Institutional UsePrice Explanation |
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Robert Frank - The Complete Film Works: Volume 2 Conversations in Vermont, Life raft Earth, OK End HereSpecial Edition DVD Boxset from D.A.P. At the end of the 1950s, Frank abandoned traditional still photography to become a filmmaker. He eventually returned to photography in the 1970s, but Frank, as a filmmaker, has remained a well-kept secret for almost four decades. Volume two comprises Conversations in Vermont, Liferaft Earth and OK End Here. Add to Cart $140 Personal Use$200 Academic/Institutional UsePrice Explanation |
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Robert Frank - The Complete Film Works: Volume 1 Pull My Daisy, The Sin of Jesus, Me and My BrotherSpecial Edition DVD Boxset from D.A.P. Robert Frank's significant contribution to photography in the mid-twentieth century is unquestionable. His book, The Americans, is arguably the most important American photography publication of the post-World War II period, and his photography has spawned numerous disciples, as well as a rich critical literature. However, at the very moment Frank achieved the status of a "star" at the end of the 1950s, he abandoned traditional still photography to become a filmmaker.... Add to Cart $140 Personal Use$200 Academic/Institutional UsePrice Explanation |
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Enid Baxter Blader - A Film is a Burning PlaceDVD from Aurora Picture Show This compilation of experimental short films and videos by Enid Baxter Blader unfolds like the pages of a lost diary, with fleeting glimpses into an anonymous someone's memories and desires. A filmmaker, painter, and bluegrass musician, Enid Baxter Blader finds inspiration in ruminations on rural life, stormy weather of the emotional and environmental variety, majestic landscapes, and small town civility. DVD includes an essay by novelist and journalist, Ben Ehrenreich. Add to Cart $30 Personal Use$100 Academic/Institutional UsePrice Explanation |
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Peter Weibel - Rewriter Early (conceptual) photographs, (expanded) films, (body) videos and (contextual) works, 1964-1975DVD from Slought Foundation Weibel started out in 1964 as a visual poet, and was soon transferring the structures of the visual culture from the page to the screen, while still retaining the model of language as one of perception. Later, he developed a critical impulse that turned not only against art but also against society and the media itself. Add to Cart $45 Personal Use$75 Academic/Institutional UsePrice Explanation |
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Merce Cunningham - Split Sides - Merce Cunningham Dance CompanyDVD from Artpix Merce Cunningham's Split Sides (2003) captures the iconic modernist choreographer's most radical use of chance procedures. As the title implies, the piece is divided into two parts. Each 20-minute part features one of two options for the different creative elements of the piece: set design, costumes, lighting, music, and choreography. Original scores, composed specifically for this collaboration by the British alternative rock group Radiohead and the Icelandic experimentalist group Sigur Rós, offer the two choices of music. Add to Cart $50 Personal Use$75 Academic/Institutional UsePrice Explanation |
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Jonas Mekas - Walden - Diaries, Notes and SketchesDVD, poster, book from Blackchair Collection Poet and hero of the American counter-culture, Jonas Mekas, born in Lithuania in 1922, invented the diary form of film-making. Walden, his first completed diary film, an epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s, is also a groundbreaking work of personal cinema. Add to Cart $90 Personal Use$140 Academic/Institutional UsePrice Explanation |
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Albie Thoms - MarinettiDVD from Albie Thoms Albie Thoms' Marinetti was the culmination of the synthetic environments that the UBU group had pioneered in Australia; festive public 'happenings' that combined the energy and volume of creative rock and jazz with the mesmeric effect of multi-dimensional lightshows. Another kind of culmination: Marinetti records most of the principal collaborators in the UBU film group, like Aggy Read and the Perrys. Uniquely valuable as a document of Australia's late 1960s counter-culture.. Add to Cart $40 Personal Use$100 Academic/Institutional UsePrice Explanation |
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Don Gillespie, Roberta Friedman and Gene Caprioglio. - 49 Waltzes for the Five BoroughsDVD from Mode John Cage's artwork, "49 Waltzes for the Five Boroughs", appeared in the October 6, 1977 Rolling Stone magazine - a gala issue celebrating their move to New York. Add to Cart $35 Personal Use$95 Academic/Institutional UsePrice Explanation |
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Henning Lohner - The Revenge of the Dead Indians: In Memoriam John CageDVD from Mode Director Henning Lohner worked with John Cage during his later years, including collaborating with Cage on his only film, One11. During that time, Lohner filmed interviews and footage with Cage, and after Cage's death decided to assemble some of it into this unique "composed film" based on musical principles - a tribute to Cage, his thoughts, music and influence. Add to Cart $35 Personal Use$95 Academic/Institutional UsePrice Explanation |
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Guru Guru / Mani Neumeier - Best of Krautrock 1971-2006DVD from Be Free Music Finally. here it is, the long-waited guru guru DVD. The best material of 1971, 1976 and 2006. Guru Guru were seminal to the German free jazz and psych music scenes, influenced by rock music, such as Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, The Who, Rolling Stones and early Pink Floyd. Among the band's friends were Amon Düül, Can and Xhol Caravan, with whom Guru Guru played jam sessions. Add to Cart $45 Personal Use$90 Academic/Institutional UsePrice Explanation |
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Emily Richardson - 6 FILMSDVD from Lux Emily Richardson's films explore landscapes and environments to reveal the way that activity, movement and light is inscribed in place. Traversing an extraordinarily diverse range of landscapes including empty East End streets, forests, North Sea oil fields, post-war tower blocks and Cold War military facilities Richardson's films offer a dazzling deconstruction of place and time. They focus the mind and eye to detail, finding transcendence and emotion in the everyday. Add to Cart $55 Personal Use$120 Academic/Institutional UsePrice Explanation |
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O Sirhan, O Sirhan #2Magazine and DVD Box Set Inspired by george maciunas' fluxus boxes, phyllis johnson's late 60's multimedia magazine, aspen and old issues of soundcollector, o sirhan, o sirhan#2 is a collection of interviews, texts, musical scores and audio-visual ephemera from varying threads of the underground and avant-garde compiled by visual artist and musician, che chen. Add to Cart $55 Personal Use$55 Academic/Institutional UsePrice Explanation |
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Bruce Bickford - Prometheus' GardenDVD from Bright Eye Pictures Best known for his collaborations with rock iconoclast Frank Zappa in the 1970s (Dub Room Special, Baby Snakes, The Amazing Mr. Bickford), underground animator Bruce Bickford has influenced generations of artists with his startlingly original vision.... Add to Cart $35 Personal Use$50 Academic/Institutional UsePrice Explanation |
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Ian Andrews - TransiterationsDVD from demux Transiterations is a series of thematically linked short video pieces by Sydney based artist Ian Andrews made between 2006 and 2008. The work is built around a number of 'recordings' of banal events found by Andrews in his daily 'transit.' Add to Cart $25 Personal Use$125 Academic/Institutional UsePrice Explanation |
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Chris Marker / Alexander Medvedkin - The Last Bolshevik and Happiness2DVD from Icarus Films Based on the life and work of the great Russian film director Alexander Medvedkin (1900-1989), THE LAST BOLSHEVIK is a tribute from one filmmaker to another through an archeological expedition into film history, exploring the relations between art and politics in the former Soviet Union. Medvedkin's silent classic, HAPPINESS, a surprisingly irreverent comedy about early Soviet efforts at collectivization, appears on a second disc in a restored, uncut version. Both films feature supplementary interviews and related short films. Add to Cart $55 Personal Use |
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Hermann Nitsch - Blood Orgies: Hermann Nitsch in AmericaBook and Companion DVD from Slought Foundation Blood Orgies:Hermann Nitsch in America (Philadelphia: Slought Books, 2008), a critical examination of pioneering work by Viennese Actionist Hermann Nitsch, with photo and video documentation of his ritualistic performances since 1962. Included is a companion DVD featuring the short film 'Das Orgien Mysterien Theater: Die Aktionen, 162-2003' Add to Cart $50 Personal Use$50 Academic/Institutional UsePrice Explanation |
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Sam Wainwright Douglas and Paul C. Lovelace - The Holy Modal Rounders: Bound to LoseDVD With voices like a sackful of rusty hinges, ramshackle playing a broken string away from careening madness, and a repertoire filled with itchy-balled ballads like "Fucking Sailors in Chinatown," the Holy Modal Rounders came on the Greenwich Village acoustic scene of the '60s like horndogs humping the folk movement's leg. Forty years later, they stand as perhaps the truest heirs to the Harry Smith Anthology's wild and woolly Americana—a point Sam Wainwright Douglas and Paul C. Lovelace's affectionate doc makes with a minimum of fuss and lots of bawdy hilarity. - Jim Ridley (Village Voice) Add to Cart $40 Personal Use$40 Academic/Institutional UsePrice Explanation |